Metropolitan Diary analysis: 2006-01-09

• Writer and fellow subway rider find an abandoned plastic bag; discuss whether or not to report it; finally the rider decides it is someone's lunch and crushes it. Category: Jaded New Yorkers
• 4-year-old tells Grandma's housekeeper(!) he wants to be a "person" when he grows up. Category: Precocious NY Kids
• Woman tells her "canine grandson" to "drop it!"; a man overhears and drops a glove he was picking up off the street. Categories: Precocious NY Pets / New York Eccentrics
• 10-year-old Red Sox fan is distraught over Johnny Damon's move to the Yankees, but still tells Dad she would live with least favorite classmate's family for double the allowance. Category: Precocious NY Kids

Totals for this Metropolitan Diary:
Jaded New Yorkers: 1
Precocious NY Kids: 2
Precocious NY Pets: 1
New York Eccentrics: 1


Totals for year to date:
Jaded New Yorkers: 4
Precocious NY Kids: 3
Rubes in the Big City: 2
Precocious NY Pets: 1
New York Eccentrics: 1